Macros?
Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2003 6:04 pm
You might remember me from a few weeks ago. I came here trying to setup MacroQuest to auto-forage for me, but being the idiot I am, I was unable to set it up.
So life went on.
Note that I am a Ranger. At higher levels, Rangers come to focus on Archery more and more (yes, there is a point to this). Note as well that there is no auto-attack for Archery. So anyway, I discovered that it was possible to setup a gamepad to continuously input "2" for me. Why "2?" That's what number Range Attack is on my hotbuttons.
So needless to say, I soon came to the realization that by simply changing the number to "1," my Forage hotbutton, I would essentially have an auto-forager. I simply push a button on the controller, and it will keep doing it until I push it again.
Problem is, I think this would be rather obvious, from SOE's point-of-view, of what I was doing. I don't know how, but I'm willing to bet that they could figure out that EQ_Player_58219 (made-up number, referring to me) keeps inputting "1" to the EQ Client every 0.20 seconds non-stop. This is what worries me. If I ran this often (I hate foraging for tradeskill components), what would you guys guess my chances are of getting caught? And if caught, what would be the punishment?
So life went on.
Note that I am a Ranger. At higher levels, Rangers come to focus on Archery more and more (yes, there is a point to this). Note as well that there is no auto-attack for Archery. So anyway, I discovered that it was possible to setup a gamepad to continuously input "2" for me. Why "2?" That's what number Range Attack is on my hotbuttons.
So needless to say, I soon came to the realization that by simply changing the number to "1," my Forage hotbutton, I would essentially have an auto-forager. I simply push a button on the controller, and it will keep doing it until I push it again.
Problem is, I think this would be rather obvious, from SOE's point-of-view, of what I was doing. I don't know how, but I'm willing to bet that they could figure out that EQ_Player_58219 (made-up number, referring to me) keeps inputting "1" to the EQ Client every 0.20 seconds non-stop. This is what worries me. If I ran this often (I hate foraging for tradeskill components), what would you guys guess my chances are of getting caught? And if caught, what would be the punishment?